5 Tips For Better Productivity

Managing your time and turning up your productivity is essential to having a thriving business.

Creating content is a required part of the equation.  Working smart is necessary.

1.    Repurpose your Content. If you produce 1 blog post each week, then stop and repurpose it into Social Media post for the week, as well as creating a newsletter article on the same topic. Stop making things harder on yourself, by creating all new content.  Here’s a typical weekly schedule example of Repurposing Your Content:

Create 1 LinkedIn Post

1 Instagram Post

1 Instagram Story

1 Email Campaign or Newsletter

7 Twitter Tweets

3 Facebook Posts

7 Pinterest Pins

1 Video for YouTube

2.    Be better at not overbooking yourself. Leave some time in your schedule between appointments every single day.  This way if meetings, Zoom calls go over, you’ll have a little buffer to get ready for the next call.  And…you won’t have to always be apologizing for being late to your next meeting/appointment.

3.    Create Productive, Positive habits. Build regularity into your work and make sure the critical tasks are getting done every day.  Get some assistance, from a VA, if there are necessary things that you could hand off and make more time for you to do the important things in your business.  Also, limit your Social Media scrolling, reading every single news item, and take scheduled regular breaks during your work day.

4.   Pay Yourself First. Your time is valuable so pick a good number that works for you and calculate an hourly wage as a rough target and put it into your bank account each week, or month. Then evaluate if you can afford to get some assistance with tasks, projects, and daily duties.

5.   Take time for you! You work hard, and you should play harder.  Know your limits and realize that even a go-getter like you needs down time.  Take a vacation, or at least a day off.  Have lunch or dinner with a friend.  Go shopping with your adult children.  See a movie or play and do something-anything-other than work.

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As Always, Let me know if you have any questions at all:  Carlene@AllSeasonVA.com.

Figuring Out Your Marketing Plan –

Completing a marketing plan is a must for your business.  Sections should include:

• Mission Statement
• List and describe your target markets
• Describe your services
• Spell out your marketing and promotional strategies
• Identify and understand your competition
• Establish quantifiable marketing goals
• Monitor monthly your results

Tips for New Entrepreneurs

• Look for customers who will provide ongoing and repeat business
• Create an Ideal client persona and hold interviews with existing clients
• Stay focused and stay engaged with your target market
• Be persistent. Repeat your marketing efforts over and over to reach your customers
• Be prepared to revise your plan as you learn what works and what does not work.
• Don’t be afraid to fail. Learn from your marketing failures and consider it trial-and-error.  It’s just part of the process

Remember to Include These Tasks

What Can a VA Help Me With?

• Here’s just a short list of what kind of support and assistance you can get:
• Setting up and Managing your Autoresponder
• Creating your weekly newsletter
• Setting up and Managing your Social Media Accounts
• Doing SEO Keyword Research
• Updating your Blog with Articles
• Arranging Webinars and Zoom Calls
• Creating Images and Forms of all kinds
• Submitting your Podcasts
• Creating Forms
• Writing and Submitting Press Releases
• Managing your Social Media Ad Accounts
• Video Creation & Editing
• Team Project Management
• Managing your Dropbox & download accounts
• Building Websites
• Creating Landing Pages

This list can go on and on…. there is no end in the back end support you can get from a great VA.

If you are ready to speak with us, just set up an appointment HERE with Carlene today!

Many Additional Ideas For Your VA Tasks

VA Best Practices

First Steps in the Process

• Get a Referral from your clients or associates
• Run an ad on these networks: www.upwork.com   www.elance.com www.peopleperhour.com

Or looking just for specific project work, this site may be an option www.fiverr.com

• Hold an interview via Zoom and discuss your needs and the VA’s ability to provide the services you will need
• Narrow down your candidates
• Check out the VA’s references
• Hold another call via Zoom with the finalist
• Agree on Compensation, start date, hours of operation, payment terms etc.

CONGRATULATIONS!   You’ve just hired a VA.

Info For My VA

Your VA will need to know all the specifics for the tasks you will be assigning to them.

For Instance:

1. Your Ideal Audience

• What type company they have
• Where do they live, country, state, region
• What’s their position in their organization
• What’s their age and gender
• How many years have they been in business
• What are their business and personal values
• Are they easy to work with
• What are their Hot Buttons
• What are their Fears

2.    All the details of your business:

• Company Name
• Company Address
• Company Email
• Company Phone #

3.  Your target market

4.  Your top 3 competitors

5.  Your company systems

6.  Your Marketing Objectives

7.  Your Social Media Presence

8.  Your top 3 immediate Goals

9.  Where you want to be in 5 years

10.  Anything else you deem pertinent to working with you.

First Steps in the Process

The First Steps in the process of hiring a VA is to be really clear on what YOU will do and what you want the VA to do for you.  And you may not even know that right now.  That’s okay.  It’s probably time to have a Zoom call with Carlene to determine the best course of action for you to follow.

Just get in touch by scheduling the meeting today.  Meet with Carlene

How is Your Website Performing?

There are many objectives that your website should be filling for your visitors.  It works for you 24/7, so keeping it updated is of utmost importance.  You can’t just build it, set it and forget it.  Unfortunately, websites don’t work that way.  There are 15 essential elements your website should have and I’ll outline them below.  You want to make sure that you are delivering a full experience for all your present and future visitors.

What Your Website Needs

Build Your Audience

5 Ways to Regularly Build Your Audience

1. Regularly add compelling content. Weekly is ideal and targeting your Niche Market is best practice.  You’ll be more successful and connect with your followers if you create content they want to consume and be inspired from.
2. Nurture and grow your audience. You must respond to comments, create an email list and market on social media to grow your audience. 
3. Become a Storyteller. Relating to your past experiences through stories will get your followers to know, like and trust you. Video also helps with this and is easy to do.
4. Strategically attract readers. Understand Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ) and be sure to optimize all your content including blog posts, social media, and video.
5. Consider running Social Media Ads to gain more followers. This is an especially good strategy if you have a group on Facebook, or a membership that you are wanting to grow.

Where to Start With Content Creation